HOT HYDROGEN IN DIFFUSE CLOUDS

被引:5
作者
Cecchi-Pestellini, Cesare [1 ]
Duley, Walt W. [2 ]
Williams, David A. [3 ]
机构
[1] INAF Osservatorio Astron Cagliari, I-09012 Capoterra, Italy
[2] Univ Waterloo, Dept Phys & Astron, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
[3] UCL, Dept Phys & Astron, London WC1E 6BT, England
关键词
infrared: diffuse background; infrared: ISM; ISM: lines and bands; ISM: molecules; MU-M SPECTRA; MOLECULAR-HYDROGEN; ULTRAVIOLET-RADIATION; INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS; INFRARED RESPONSE; ROTATIONAL-EXCITATION; LABORATORY SIMULATION; CARBON NANOPARTICLES; BAND SYSTEM; H-2;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/119
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Laboratory evidence suggests that recombination of adsorbed radicals may cause an abrupt temperature excursion of a dust grain to about 1000 K. One consequence of this is the rapid desorption of adsorbed H-2 molecules with excitation temperatures of this magnitude. We compute the consequences of injection of hot H-2 into cold diffuse interstellar gas at a rate of 1% of the canonical H-2 formation rate. We find that the level populations of H-2 in J = 3, 4, and 5 are close to observed values, and that the abundances of CH+ and OH formed in reactions with hot hydrogen are close to the values obtained from observations of diffuse clouds.
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